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    "id": 1257767,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1257767/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Kamar",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 33,
        "legal_name": "Margaret Jepkoech Kamar",
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    "content": "We know that there is free flow of goods under the East African Community (EAC) among partner states. We know there is free flow of goods between Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa COMESA partner states. If there is going to be free flow of goods, how shall we distinguish between the large-scale trader of the mung bean from Kenya, which is a protected crop; because this Bill is going to protect that crop, versus any other product that is coming out? We know that we will not limit anything, just the way we discussed when we had our maize flour from Uganda. You cannot protect entry of commodities at the border point from other EAC partner states because of the other agreements that we have. It is the same thing when we have the African Union open. We need to think seriously about how the large-scale traders will not distort the trade of this good that we are saying is going to be a specialised product. I am living it for Senators to think through. As we finalize the Bill, if there is a way in which we can tweak so that we are protecting ours because in most of these agreements, the source of the product is supposed to be known. How shall we ensure that what is from Kenya is a product of Kenya? If that is done, competition between us and the neighbouring countries will be in terms of the prices only. We continue to identify the Kenyan mung bean because it is a valuable product as far as the list of crops that we have are concerned."
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